Typomania 2020: the stars, the contest & the power of collaboration in Russia’s upcoming typographic fest

“Dear friends! We, Alexander Vasin and Natalia Velchinskaya, are founders of Typomania Festival. In connection with recent events, closing the frontiers and understanding the responsibility for the health of festival's visitors we are starting Plan B. It means that we continue our preparations for all Typomania exhibitions but all live performances will be turned into online broadcasts” says the announcement of Vasin and Velchinskaya, the creative forces of Typomania 2020.

Held annually since 2012, the Moscow International Festival Typomania is regarded as the most fun Russian design event by many.

With COVID-19 cancelling one live event after another Typomania is going full force digital with a live broadcast to inspire and provide more insights on the state of the graphic design,type design, calligraphy and more in 2020.

With a variety of speakers ranging from graphic designer Jonas Voegeli to calligraphers Olga Kovalenko, Michel D’Anastasio and Sigrid Artmann, through type aficionados such as Paratype’s Alexandra Korolkova and Daria Petrova to creative forces such as Tania Alvarez Zaldivar and Dafi Kühne, Typomania 2020 is about to unleash plenty of insights and inspiration online.

“On May 30-31 and June 6-7, the online visitors to Typomania will meet with stars of graphic design, typography, calligraphy, type design who will come to the festival from all over the world to tell about themselves and their projects. The lecture program will be divided into several blocks: Type, Calligraphy, Book, Video, Poster, Special Projects” with this year’s theme being as relevant as ever.

Typomania 2020 is all about „Collaboration“, about teamwork and collective projects.

In the event of this year's festival Typomania 2020 developed a Wisdom generator for wise advice anywhere.

Designers, illustrators and all lovers of letters, words and free suggestions are invited to participate in the design event "Wise poster" which you may enter here.

In regard to Typomania 2020’s large exhibition program everything will go as planned, but due to the pandemic all live performances will be turned into online broadcasts.

Last but not least this is a kind reminder to enter one of the main events of the festival aka Typomania's video contest.

The contest exists from the very beginning of the event is a creative fest of type-infused videos with participants ranging from designers, motion designers, animators — both students and professionals alike.

The poster of this year's 6th annual Typomania Festival.Enter the "Wise Poster" project with Typomania's Wisdom Genrator and send your design before May 10th. The jury aka Peter Bankov, Tatiana Egoshina, Tatyana Ermolaeva, Andrey Logvin and ESH gruppa will choose the 44 best posters that will be part of the exhibition program of the festival. The identity of the project "Wise Poster" is designed by Tatyana Ermolaeva.Dafi Kühne is a Swiss designer who works with analogue and digital techniques to produce fresh and unique letterpress-printed posters. Over the past decade, Dafi salvaged more than 30 tons of redundant letterpress printing equipment that he is now using to design and produce his work. Fusing modern means with the century-old tradition of letterpress, he forms a new vocabulary for how to communicate through type and form in a truly contemporary way. Never retro, his work is a clever response to the search for new possibilities of graphic expression. In his Typomania 2020 lecture "True Print" Dafi Kühne talks about his process of making typographic posters with redundant analog printing technology and the refreshingly un-analog results. For Kühne technical restriction is a booster of creativity and Typeroom approves. In her «Tombstone reflections» lecture Daria Petrova, the author of the Zangezi font, the main font used in Typomania 2020 identity enters the world of gravestones. Calligrapher, artist and graphic designer Michel D’Anastasio invites everyone into the Hebrew letters and calligraphy. In her «Graphic Design as Volume» lecture Mexican digital artist, typographer, and graphic designer Tania Alvarez Zaldivar explores the multilayered power of design. She is also a member of this year's video contest jury along with DIA Studio (USA), Lamm & Kirch (Germany), Arthur Kondrashenkov and Superdesigners (Russia).Works of Typomania 2020 speaker, Swiss graphic designer Jonas Voegeli. Voegeli is a founding partner of Hubertus Design (Zurich/New York), the head of Visual Communication at the Zurich University of the Arts, and a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI). Swiss Daniel Peter, designer and art director based in Bern will give a talk on his work as a designer in various disciplines in his lecture «Work so far». The stunning calligraphic landscape of Sigrid Artmann is explored in this year's exhibition "I CAN’T READ IT! WHAT DOES IT MEAN?" The series of abstract calligraphic lyrics as an expression of the authentic move. Regardless other people's expectations. What do you expect from a calligrapher? Many people expect beautiful letters, words, something legible. I want to overcome boredom & paralysis and brave step out of expectations and the so-called good taste. So these sheets were created as a dialogue with a fictional counterpart. This fiction person doesn’t understand my kind of calligraphic art. I see these small pieces also as a brave statement for following your heart and don’t adapt too much to the art market. These works have emancipated themselves from the letters and giving freedom of own interpretation. I ask myself: is this still calligraphy? And answering: YES — indeed!Curated by Roman Vasiliev "Stavropol Carte Blanche" exhibition features posters created by Sergey Bobylev independently and in co-authorship with Vladimir Krichevsky in Stavropol (Russia). Posters had been printed in Stavropol Regional Printing House in the 90s. Hand-assembled, high print. There are originals from the collections of Alexander Kolbasnikov and Vladimir Krichevsky.

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